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With an eCommerce site I would always recommend having as flat of a site architecture as possible. This make's it easy for the spiders to crawl and the users to find the content without having to dig or land through a SERP. If you are adding new content to your article section that you want to be unrelated to the existing content in the current sub-folder being used, then creating a directory to house the new content with a more descriptive sub-folder name is the best idea in my opinion. I would make sure to have the link in the header OR the footer but not both. Just design it for whatever makes sense from the user's end and you will be in good shape. I would also recommend that you label the pages with the Google recommendation tags (rel=next, rel=prev, and the not-so-trusty rel="canonical") and identify those pages you don't want indexed with Bing URL Normalization.

Yeah I have added a site to my profile. By legit I meant is this kosher or are they being scummy? : ) But you've answered my question, thank you!

I think you are correct. Here are the AddThis buttons script samples (no href): <a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a>                                    <a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a>                                    <a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a>                                    <a class="addthis_button_compact"></a>                                    <a class="addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style"></a> Here are the ShareThis buttons which are used by SEOMoz on blog posts (without <a>):</a> <a>Just in case, I think I will go with ShareThis from now on... Still looking for more ideas if anyone has...</a>

I do however agree with what Ryan wrote - in that domains with keywords (unless a valid part of a brand) is not a worthwhile focus. Google particularly likes brands, so build a reputation based on  quality content in your niches and you should be okay. There's no harm in building a good niche sites, i.e. filling a gap the main competition aren't in, but do it genuinely and do it well - remember you're building a quality site and everything affects your reputation - oh and finally, remember there are no short cuts

I have few concerns about mobile seo. Pls have a look at here - http://www.seomoz.org/q/want-to-target-mobile-site-for-google-mobile-version-and-desktop-site-for-google-desktop-version Can I have any response here?

Sorry for the delay. If the site is still registered you might be able to get the registar login info and point it a new server to 301 it. Other wise you've just got the hurry up and wait game.  You can start by find the sites that link to the old domain and get them to change the link to the new one.  Time consuming, but really your only option if you can't change the nameservers.

With over 7 million results being returned for rummage (this is without doing my research) I'd wager it will be a little tough for SEO with a new site.  Just keeping plugging away and you'll see your site come back up before long.

Hi Bob, I have done some soliciting myself for a free finance resource website, which went quite successful. Basically, the main aspect you should focus on is explaining to them the value that your website can bring to theirs. Go into specific details on why exactly your website should belong on theirs. For example, do you have fantastic content that they and their visitors should know about? If you can, let them know if you had any success cooperating with a major site, as it helps enlarging your credibility. Also, at the start of the email, just let them know that you enjoy visiting their website (whether it's the look or the information given), they always seem to appreciate that. Good luck!

There's always the danger of being hit by Panda and other low quality penalties if you get too many of your internal search results indexed, but I've personally seen a significant boost in traffic by having my internal search pages indexable on many sites.  It's also a common strategy for comparison shopping sites and other similar sites.  So the answer is, it depends.  If you flesh out your search pages with keyword rich content, you could see a lift in your traffic.

Yeah, sorry for the confusion. I put the tag on all the pages (Original and Duplicate). I sent you a PM with another good article on Rel canonical tag

There's a good idea. Turn the B*stonWeddingPhotographer.com site into a review site.

Thanks for further clarification! I don't think I see too much trouble arising from an over optimization point of view (if there's limits and thresholds you can set on number of links etc). But I think my personal style would be to do this via usual optimization efforts - analytics, webmaster tools data and the like. And this is just a matter of how you want to prioritize your resources. I'd personally spend more time with higher value things like content, social (depending on market), building a brand, etc. And my only other concern is with UX. Depending on how often the links change, or if the text generated is intuitive etc I would also prioritize UX, since that is what Google is rewarding more and more nowadays. Hope those additional thoughts just help add some more input!

No problem! I'm curious what solution you are planning to choose and of course, if it helped you rank higher.. although that sort of data will only be available in a couple of months of course.

Yep that's a good idea to.  You can see SEOMoz's ranking factors has an example, each year they keep the same url and update the survey.

Going to have to code my own when I have time...

Thanks Cyrus. That's close to what my intuition told me. I'll try to keep the niche directories in the 4:1 or 3:1 ballpark.

Well, it sounds like you'll need to find it or create it. First, you could offer up your own reviews.  You could also open up the pages to allow comments.  Go ahead and push those heavily on your social networks to pull in traffic to gather up those reviews.

Heya, I don't know what 'Sched.com' is as there's nothing on that domain, or what you mean by a 'Ning' file, but applying basic rules Do what you can/have to, to reduce errors on the site - this may involve restructuring the site or moving files around You don't need new domains for storing content, sub-domains or sub-folders will suffice Having content/files which are not 'SEO-able' is not an issue. If you focus on the user's experience of the website, reduce clutter and errors and ensure the site is easily crawlable then you are getting things off on the right footing. 600 pages in a root domain is crazy, but if they are named helpfully then it doesn't necessarily have to be a problem. I often have sites where an index.php governs the site and then all the content is stored in a sub-folder. It's not necessarily where the files are stored, but how they are managed and organised that makes a difference to the webmater, website visitors and indeed, search engines. You should be able to fix errors without moving pages off-site, else why have them anywhere? Hope this helps in some way